We performed a comparison between Datadog and DX Spectrum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"We find they have a very helpful alert system."
"The solution is sufficiently stable."
"This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space."
"Sometimes it's more user friendly for development teams. There are some parts of Datadog that are more understandable for development teams. For example, the APM in Datadog works more manually and works like the tools in New Relic or Grafana, or Elastic. It is easier to understand for software development teams."
"It is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"We like the distributed tracing and flame graphs for debugging. This has been invaluable for us during periods of high traffic or red alert conditions."
"The most useful feature is the APM."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"It is easy to navigate."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"The monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The product is quite complex, and there are so many features that I either didn't know about or wasn't sure how to use."
"More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"It can have an artificial intelligence component. Even though I can seamlessly look at end-to-end security, it would be better to have alerts and notifications powered by an AI engine. I am not sure if they have an AI component. We have not reached out to them or looked at it, but this is something that I keep on talking about within our company in terms of features. Such a feature would be good to have, and it would further optimize my Security Ops team's abilities."
"Delta traces on the Golang profiler are extremely expensive concerning memory utilization."
"The pricing should be less of a surprise."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"The menu on the left is pretty dense (and I know it has to be). I never knew about the cmd+k functionality until recently. It would be helpful to offer more tips/cheat sheets to see handy shortcuts like that."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes. See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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